Just checking out that JooJoo video . . . looks very nice. Probably not my niche (tablet) but thanks for the link, and the salient point that the iPad is over hyped even here on slashdot.
I have been looking to perhaps buy a Dell (the little HTPC . . . Zino HD I think). It looks like a good piece of hardware, a better deal than the mini IMHO. But it comes with Windows (7 is an upcharge). I can of course install one of the linux distros on it, and either have dual boot and so on. But I dont have internet access at home and it will be a pain to maintain a linux, and perhaps even a Windows, installation without the pipes. The mini will work out of the box, and just like my PowerBook, will likely never need an internet connection to get something to work. Dell no longer offers Ubuntu on anything... so while it works for you somehow, in my mind Dell has as many problems with the Windows lock in.
I'd say that it's a good sign (when nobody calls them on it). By nobody I mean the media, fans, general public as it is none of their business. If said player is drunk while playing, or fondling chearleaders/ fans for everyone to see that is another matter. But a society that has a healthy separation of personal and public is a great and enlightened society.
I would be tempted to mod you up because of the basic truth. But remember, while Bush was pushing for the war in Iraq (with both Rummy and Dick pulling the puppet strings) it was congress that rolled over, amongst both parties. So shorthanding it as "Bush" is easy and commonplace, but is also really misleading. But Obama, as well as the new congressmen, did inherit this mess and have to deal with it. Those who shout about Obama and the unbalanced budget are myopic at best.
Or we could start with the biggest sink hole of all which is US military on foreign soil (how many countries do we have bases in?), and the military industrial complex. Once that budget is brought back under control (and I can get the pigs to stop flying out of my ass long enough to ice skate in hell) we can look at things like education (where no federal money should go), which perhaps is something under your "entitlement program" umbrella. Certainly unemployment insurance/ payouts is something the Feds should not be involved in and is better handled at the state level. Much like health insurance.
I see your point, hadn't considered that. But it still seems useless, surely the firehose submissions are separable from those that make it to the front page via another method, but perhaps not one that can or will be exposed in the same manner as tag filtering. But I was just looking for a way to work in a car analogy.
If everything is tagged story, then the tag becomes meaningless as a filter. I am under the assumption that someday it is foreseen that there will be a posting that is not a story, and will not be tagged as such (probably will be tagged !story) thus making whoever thought tagging everything as story look like a genius. It's like you have a car dealership, and you are involved in inventory. All you sell is cars, in many shapes, sizes, colors, makes, models, etc. You want to have a database that tracks sales in those categories (where a single vehicle will have values in more than one category). Does it make sense to have a category (let's call it vehicle) that every piece of inventory fits into?
Skylights (horizontal glazing) are a terrible idea for energy efficiency. In the winter, when you want the heat gain, you end up with a net heat loss compared to the normally insulated part of the roof, and in the summer it is reversed (even with the good low-E double or even triple paned glass) and you end up with a net heat gain. Better to do a clere-story style light that has vertical glazing facing south, a roof dormer if you will. Then in the summer you get bounced light in and in the winter direct light in. Works out a lot better. Yes the tubes are a joke compared to even skylights in terms of thermal efficiency. But the best of the bunch are the solatubes.
I'm too busy to dig up all of the references, but Walmart found that the daylit section of their stores had better sales volume, and started to expand the daylighting based on that. Texas school system also found that good daylighting in classrooms correlated to higher test scores and generally better behaved classrooms (obviously a soft metric here) and instituted a program to ensure more daylit classrooms because of it. This is a trend that has been going on since the late 1990s. I work at an architecture firm that does a lot of school work and even before LEED standards were mandated the school system was insisting on daylighting as much as possible. This also is something that in my Master's program was covered extensively (daylighting is better not just for electricity reduction, but overall health and productivity). So I tend to believe it both from anecdotal evidence and the above "studies".
Wait, that bit about the blowjob is interesting. I mean it is a stress relief, and there are generally studies that suggest having a regular healthy sex life leads to longer life, better health etc. So, while I am getting my medical marijuana prescription filled why shouldn't I be able to get a medical blow job . . . prostitutes could well be considered health practitioners.
If you want to point out that Al Gore has been imprecise and self contradictory when talking about GW then fine. But don't confuse what he says with the science itself. Just like you shouldn't confuse what the "anti-GW" pundits say with the science itself. Otherwise you just look like a tool who doesn't have the capability of understanding that global climate != regional weather. This is true regardless of whether or not you are in the "pro-GW" or "anti-GW" camp. And falling into either one of those camps probably makes you a tool anyhow as science does not have a camp.
I've made it a few times, and while the prim and proper like to drink it mixed (very ceremoniously) with sugar and water it is very fine straight up. I brought a bottle to a party which a bunch of us passed around. And then mad hilarity struck . . . it's different than regular booze and I highly recommend making it for yourself. You will need to set up a still, because after you macerate the wormwood and other herbs in everclear (or wine spirits) you mix with water and then distill the final product (you can add another round of wormwood and anise etc to color it, but I've done it both ways and the coloration does not affect the flavor). I'd suggest an old pressure cooker with the rattle top removed and connected to clear tubing as the base for an easy temporary still set up.
Not abandoning though. The US is not a good market right now as very few actually are interested in the product. So take the production to somewhere where the product will sell, you can develop the technology, and it becomes ubiquitous (and cheap). At that point the rest of the world can hop on the bandwagon and very inexpensively just switch over to the new thing, effectively leapfrogging the development stage (with the requisite time penalty). Until the mythical joe sixpack can buy these things at wall-mart or home depot it makes little sense to try to sell here. Sadly.
You have to blame the American people as much as the industries. The service retail sector died for the no service but cheaper retail. Well made long lasting products died for the cheaper and shoddier disposable products. In the end though we'll all end up in the same boat. The Chinese (and others) will develop the technologies that bring them up from their current levels (eg, power in all houses, public buildings, etc). Meanwhile Americans will benefit from the advancement of the technologies so that it becomes cheaper to go off the grid as it were, but also realize that they have to reduce the overall usage. We waste far too much here, and are quite unsustainable. What we will learn, perhaps the hard way, is that we must change the way we do things in order to become more sustainable. If you are worried, start investing in the Pacific Rim and China funds.
I would guess it is because the regulations come after the fact, and are slow to change. So, in the case of the housing bubble for instance, the regulations are put into place after the fact to try to keep it from happening again (not looking to discuss what actually led up to our housing woes, just using it as an example). They are not changed every time some story about a new housing development is published.
I agree with your overall point, but that wsj link and the idea of three felonies a day is sensationalist. The article doesn't try to quantify the claim at all, but ends up making the point that the laws are too convoluted. Fine. But you lose all credibility when you have to hype it as titled.
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Just checking out that JooJoo video . . . looks very nice. Probably not my niche (tablet) but thanks for the link, and the salient point that the iPad is over hyped even here on slashdot.
I have been looking to perhaps buy a Dell (the little HTPC . . . Zino HD I think). It looks like a good piece of hardware, a better deal than the mini IMHO. But it comes with Windows (7 is an upcharge). I can of course install one of the linux distros on it, and either have dual boot and so on. But I dont have internet access at home and it will be a pain to maintain a linux, and perhaps even a Windows, installation without the pipes. The mini will work out of the box, and just like my PowerBook, will likely never need an internet connection to get something to work. Dell no longer offers Ubuntu on anything ... so while it works for you somehow, in my mind Dell has as many problems with the Windows lock in.
You could, you know, read the post you respond to. Start with the phrase "sterilized compost".
I'd say that it's a good sign (when nobody calls them on it). By nobody I mean the media, fans, general public as it is none of their business. If said player is drunk while playing, or fondling chearleaders/ fans for everyone to see that is another matter. But a society that has a healthy separation of personal and public is a great and enlightened society.
Perhaps we can find a cure for "crazy religious types".
I would be tempted to mod you up because of the basic truth. But remember, while Bush was pushing for the war in Iraq (with both Rummy and Dick pulling the puppet strings) it was congress that rolled over, amongst both parties. So shorthanding it as "Bush" is easy and commonplace, but is also really misleading. But Obama, as well as the new congressmen, did inherit this mess and have to deal with it. Those who shout about Obama and the unbalanced budget are myopic at best.
Or we could start with the biggest sink hole of all which is US military on foreign soil (how many countries do we have bases in?), and the military industrial complex. Once that budget is brought back under control (and I can get the pigs to stop flying out of my ass long enough to ice skate in hell) we can look at things like education (where no federal money should go), which perhaps is something under your "entitlement program" umbrella. Certainly unemployment insurance/ payouts is something the Feds should not be involved in and is better handled at the state level. Much like health insurance.
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I see your point, hadn't considered that. But it still seems useless, surely the firehose submissions are separable from those that make it to the front page via another method, but perhaps not one that can or will be exposed in the same manner as tag filtering. But I was just looking for a way to work in a car analogy.
If everything is tagged story, then the tag becomes meaningless as a filter. I am under the assumption that someday it is foreseen that there will be a posting that is not a story, and will not be tagged as such (probably will be tagged !story) thus making whoever thought tagging everything as story look like a genius. It's like you have a car dealership, and you are involved in inventory. All you sell is cars, in many shapes, sizes, colors, makes, models, etc. You want to have a database that tracks sales in those categories (where a single vehicle will have values in more than one category). Does it make sense to have a category (let's call it vehicle) that every piece of inventory fits into?
Skylights (horizontal glazing) are a terrible idea for energy efficiency. In the winter, when you want the heat gain, you end up with a net heat loss compared to the normally insulated part of the roof, and in the summer it is reversed (even with the good low-E double or even triple paned glass) and you end up with a net heat gain. Better to do a clere-story style light that has vertical glazing facing south, a roof dormer if you will. Then in the summer you get bounced light in and in the winter direct light in. Works out a lot better. Yes the tubes are a joke compared to even skylights in terms of thermal efficiency. But the best of the bunch are the solatubes.
I'm too busy to dig up all of the references, but Walmart found that the daylit section of their stores had better sales volume, and started to expand the daylighting based on that. Texas school system also found that good daylighting in classrooms correlated to higher test scores and generally better behaved classrooms (obviously a soft metric here) and instituted a program to ensure more daylit classrooms because of it. This is a trend that has been going on since the late 1990s. I work at an architecture firm that does a lot of school work and even before LEED standards were mandated the school system was insisting on daylighting as much as possible. This also is something that in my Master's program was covered extensively (daylighting is better not just for electricity reduction, but overall health and productivity). So I tend to believe it both from anecdotal evidence and the above "studies".
Wait, that bit about the blowjob is interesting. I mean it is a stress relief, and there are generally studies that suggest having a regular healthy sex life leads to longer life, better health etc. So, while I am getting my medical marijuana prescription filled why shouldn't I be able to get a medical blow job . . . prostitutes could well be considered health practitioners.
You spelled republican wrong. Oh, and look at that, I spelled greedy politician wrong.
If you want to point out that Al Gore has been imprecise and self contradictory when talking about GW then fine. But don't confuse what he says with the science itself. Just like you shouldn't confuse what the "anti-GW" pundits say with the science itself. Otherwise you just look like a tool who doesn't have the capability of understanding that global climate != regional weather. This is true regardless of whether or not you are in the "pro-GW" or "anti-GW" camp. And falling into either one of those camps probably makes you a tool anyhow as science does not have a camp.
I've made it a few times, and while the prim and proper like to drink it mixed (very ceremoniously) with sugar and water it is very fine straight up. I brought a bottle to a party which a bunch of us passed around. And then mad hilarity struck . . . it's different than regular booze and I highly recommend making it for yourself. You will need to set up a still, because after you macerate the wormwood and other herbs in everclear (or wine spirits) you mix with water and then distill the final product (you can add another round of wormwood and anise etc to color it, but I've done it both ways and the coloration does not affect the flavor). I'd suggest an old pressure cooker with the rattle top removed and connected to clear tubing as the base for an easy temporary still set up.
Not abandoning though. The US is not a good market right now as very few actually are interested in the product. So take the production to somewhere where the product will sell, you can develop the technology, and it becomes ubiquitous (and cheap). At that point the rest of the world can hop on the bandwagon and very inexpensively just switch over to the new thing, effectively leapfrogging the development stage (with the requisite time penalty). Until the mythical joe sixpack can buy these things at wall-mart or home depot it makes little sense to try to sell here. Sadly.
You have to blame the American people as much as the industries. The service retail sector died for the no service but cheaper retail. Well made long lasting products died for the cheaper and shoddier disposable products. In the end though we'll all end up in the same boat. The Chinese (and others) will develop the technologies that bring them up from their current levels (eg, power in all houses, public buildings, etc). Meanwhile Americans will benefit from the advancement of the technologies so that it becomes cheaper to go off the grid as it were, but also realize that they have to reduce the overall usage. We waste far too much here, and are quite unsustainable. What we will learn, perhaps the hard way, is that we must change the way we do things in order to become more sustainable. If you are worried, start investing in the Pacific Rim and China funds.
only for very small values of invisible.
1%~=drop in the bucket
>10%=significant
I would guess it is because the regulations come after the fact, and are slow to change. So, in the case of the housing bubble for instance, the regulations are put into place after the fact to try to keep it from happening again (not looking to discuss what actually led up to our housing woes, just using it as an example). They are not changed every time some story about a new housing development is published.
Of course we also subsidize wildly profitable enterprises. Perhaps we should cut those out first?
It's really amazing how much I learn browsing here . . .
I agree with your overall point, but that wsj link and the idea of three felonies a day is sensationalist. The article doesn't try to quantify the claim at all, but ends up making the point that the laws are too convoluted. Fine. But you lose all credibility when you have to hype it as titled.
In both cases value (something) left your wallet.